runner quotes

  • The lame man who keeps the right road outstrips the runner who takes a wrong one. Nay, it is obvious that when a man runs the wrong way, the more active and swift he is the further he will go astray.

    - Francis,Viscount St Albans Bacon
      Novum Organum.

  • The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner.

    - Alan Sillitoe
      Title of book. Colombian  poet  whose  life  was  marked by  financial reverses, the  death  of  loved  ones,  and  the  loss  of  his  manuscripts  in  a shipwreck.  His  poetry  is  characteristically  melancholy,  and after only ten years of writing he committed suicide.

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